Bai Mo "Brother, you choose a horse for your mount?"
Jiang Chen "I didn't find any suitable beast there, this poor thing was being grouped among beasts?" said pitifully.
Bai Mo was laughing inside "I heard it is too powerful for a horse and bucks a lot."
Jiang Chen "This poor thing is innocent it is probably scared of all the beasts in the forest." Jiang Chen said innocently.
Bai Mo "Since you are happy with it, let it be. Lets go. Brother Jiang take this map. We would go hunting in the region marked red." Bai Mo said passing the map to Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen studied the map slowly as if he was interested in it. Bai Mo was in lead leading way to other group members. Everyone maintained, a sufficient distance from Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen just chuckled in his heart ,'Poor guys what would happen to them if they know that their family was wiped out already.'
After few minutes ,they reached the entrance to the forest.
Bai Mo "Now that we are at entrance of the forest be prepared .It is designated as level 2 Hunting Zone , so you have great chance of encountering level 2 beasts. So be prepared ,if you hear or see anything, inform others immediately."
After that he led way, for others, then they made the payments required and entered the forest.
Once they entered the forest, they started using the maximum speed available for the beasts. They reached the deeper layer of the forest.
Bai Mo "Now, you people can remove the blindfold on beasts eyes." after that Jiang Chen and others removed the blindfolds on their beasts eyes.
Jiang Chen was confident that this horse would not act crazy for now because it know that her opponent is prepared.
Bai Mo and others were on high alert, as they watched Jiang Chen unfold the blind folds of the horse. As Jiang Chen expected, the black horse didn't do anything and behaved properly.
Bai Mo "Jiang Chen your horse seem fine?"
Jiang Chen "Yeah it is fine. Is there anything wrong in being fine?"
Bai Mo "No, nothing, I feared that horse might be scared, the smell of demonic beasts is so dense in the forest."
Jiang Chen "Yes that is true. I am not wrong ,this is truly a good horse." Jiang Chen was laughing in his heart. Let the show begin. After that he patted with his hand on hoses neck, then it started behaving violently.
Just when Bai Mo was thinking whether that manager fooled him ,he could hear heavy thuds as the horse as it was running violently, smashing into everything, with Jiang Chen on its back.
Bai Mo saw that Jiang Chen was struggling to control the horse, As it took him deeper into the forest. Bai Family members were surprised, as it happened too fast. They already knew that Jiang Chen's beast was tampered with, and it would act strangely, but they never knew it would be this fast.
One of the Bai family member asked Bai Mo. "Young master, everything is going according to plan. We should let Ning family members know, which direction Jiang Chen went."
Bai Mo nodded his head and signed to one of the family members . He then used a kind of flare at direction Jiang Chen went.
Bai Mo "Now since Ning family is acting directly, Jiang Chen will sure die."
Bai Mo "Jiang Chen is a genius and can jump ranks in fighting but I am sure he won't be able to fight all 100 members of Ning family alone?
One of Bai family members " Yes, young master Bai, with that we eliminated one of your rivals and now only Ha Ling is left from River-Spring City."
Bai Mo "He will die sooner. But I suspect, Ning family may take away will the loots, after killing Jiang Chen. There is lot of stuff inside his jade belt. Reports on all martial techniques available in River-Spring city ,his fire attributed sword , there should also be lot of beast cores and stuff. Even there should be high quality pills with him."
Bai Mo "We only promised to share the information about martial techniques with Ning family, Jiang Chen beast's egg and his swords other stuff should belong to us."
One of his guards "Should I follow Jiang Chen ,I can keep an eye in Ning family too."
Bai Mo "This will make Ning family suspect us and doubt us. We have to trust them for now."
Bai Mo "One of you go to meeting point and signal us when they come , we will continue with the hunting trip."
Just as Bai Mo was happy that his plan is working, Jiang Chen and the black horse reached an isolated valley. Both of them are standing face to face, ready to start the fight at moments notice.
Jiang Chen " Should we talk before or after the fight. I know you are searching for a rider with huge potential. I will not disappoint you. Now about the fight. You can't use your demonic core for now. So, I will also not use my sword." He said that and took out his fire attributed sword and placed it on the rock nearby.
Jiang Chen "I will be using my fire attribute to fight you and use my fist techniques"
Jiang Chen said that, and his fists turned red, as the fire attribute energy surrounded his hand.
Taking this as signal for start of fight the black horse approached Jiang Chen as it used its front legs to attack Jiang Chen facing his fist head on with its leg.
"Blasting Fist."
When both of them made a contact, both Jiang Chen and horse were pushed backward by few meters. Jiang Chen smiled at the reaction. Even, horse was surprised seeing this.
It already realized that, Jiang Chen already can see inside it and was here to take him as mount.It was already prepared to accept Jiang Chen as a companion, but it has its own pride, so he won't just show its neck, submitting to Jiang Chen.
It expected that he would be able to trouble Jiang Chen for a while and may loose after lengthy fight. But that brat instead fought it in handicap he is not using his weapon like other humans did .He answered his move with a fist and it even knocked him behind. Powerful this human is as powerful as him or probably even more powerful than him. He has yet to awaken, his darkness attribute powers and Jiang Chen is not using weapons. Fair fight, it would be his victory if he can force Jiang Chen to use his sword.
It didn't know, if Jiang Chen really wanted to defeat it, it is very easy for him to just use one sword strike, and the fight would be over, if he use his light attribute or any of his attributes. He wanted that horse to know, how high his potential is.
Jiang Chen then smiled and continued charging forward with another round of blasting fist. Each strike of blasting fist consumed around 40000 strands of heavenly energy ,its power is much more than when he used at Martial Disciple stage. When he was in martial disciple stage he used to use 10000 strands to use blasting fist with increase in cultivation the amount of attribute energy increased as well as the quality of attribute strands . His attribute strands and heavenly strands are more than five times thicker, compared to when they were in heavenly disciple realm . Inside the dantian heavenly strands consume each other and grow thicker and longer(merge) this compression led to even more powerful.
Jiang Chen was getting more and more excited at this fight, it is first time he is fighting who is able to match him equally to some extent.
It continued for over another hundred or so moves. There was no result as of yet ,and Jiang Chen's fire attribute results are depleting faster than he expected.
Jiang Chen "Don't worry about them? We will kill them, after our fight is finished." even the horse can sense their killing intent. Just then it started initiating the soul bonding process.
Jiang Chen noticed that, Ning family members are already nearby and watching Jiang Chen's fight with the horse.
Ning Men "All of you, hide yourself carefully. Let us wait till the fight ends and once the fight ends we will make a move. If Jiang Chen realize our presence early, he will be alert and may run away from here."
Ning Men "Surround the area and hide your presence. That horse is really capable. It tied down Jiang Chen easily. If this continues for few more rounds ,I am sure Jiang Chen will run out of his fire attribute energy. He would be almost defenseless, if we surround him then and we can kill him easily. He don't have any lightning attribute close range techniques."
Everyone agreed to the plan it was safe and less risky for them.
After around another half an hour, Jiang Chen stopped attacking the horse and even horse stopped attacking and the soul bond was completed.
Both of them approached each other and Jiang Chen sent his spiritual sense inside the horse along with that he activated his heavenly God's eye technique.
Jiang Chen "Which attribute did you take?"
Jiang Chen was checking the horse.
Jiang Chen " There is a completely formed Darkness core and a Fire attribute core. I could also see a speck of light attribute energy inside you .You are really cunning. You want to become light attributed too. But it will take long time, for it to be fully formed. But it would be good once it is formed."
Jiang Chen "Now that you have formed demonic core .You directly became a rank 2 demonic beast. It is good thing."
As he spoke he fed it some revitalizing pills to quickly store heavenly energy to it, Jiang Chen was simultaneously absorbing heavenly energy and there are over 20 million strands inside his dantian. Since it went through breakthrough just now even Night mare beast is in its best condition.
Jiang Chen continued to pat the horse and observe the changes inside.
As Jiang Chen was checking the horse and refilling his spent heavenly energy , Ning family members slowly started moving forward encircling him. Even though they outnumbered him they feared Jiang Chen might escape if he noticed them.
Jiang Chen "NIGHT, there are exactly 100 martial artists surrounding us, 5 of them are Peak stage martial artists,10 of them are in 8th stage ,18 in 7th stage martial artist realm. Remaining are insignificant and I can kill them easily. But I would need to work with you to kill those thirty three members."
As Jiang Chen spoke battle intent can already be seen in its eyes it was more intense than when it faced Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen smiled and slowly went to the boulder where he place his sword and took it and placed it back in his natal palace. Same time he took out his River Wood bow and quiver of arrows from natal palace. Jiang Chen then mounted the horse comfortably. He then extended his hand and his lightning attribute spear appeared in his hand and in another hand his Ice attributed spear appeared.He them to his shoulders and taking out his bow he nooked an arrow to it.
Jiang Chen "If you come at same pace, it would be tomorrow morning when you reach me." saying that he released the arrow and immediately three huge lightnings struck a person hit by it and he collapsed onto the ground he was not dead but ,he won't be able to take part in the fight. It was one of the 8th stage Martial artist.
Only now did Ning family understood Jiang Chen already knew they are coming for him.
Ning Men "So you already noticed us, yet you are not running for your life. You are either too brave or too foolish"
Jiang Chen released another arrow and another 8th stage martial artist collapsed.
Jiang Chen "What do you think it is?"
Ning Men "Foolishness. A first stage martial artist dares to fight 100 members of Ning family all alone. What else could be it?"
Jiang Chen "98 ,those two will not be able to continue fighting also those two." as he released tow arrows in quick succession and one of them hit a 9th stage martial artist who was just lightly injured but he felt that something is wrong.
Jiang Chen "Don't stress ,I added a little poison in that arrow. Some safety measures.It will not harm you as long you use you energy to suppress it but if you take part in fight I don't know."
Jiang Chen "Do you still think I am foolish?" he said looking at Ning Men as he pointed his arrow at Jiang Men but this arrow was dodged by Ning Men.
Ning Men "You do have some tricks ,but they can't help you stay alive. All of you charge forward full gallop ,don't let him enter a range. He is out of his fire attribute energy and he don't have close combat skills to fight with lightning attribute. Attack don't let him get a range."
Ning Men "Archers get into position and prepare to launch attacks." just as he spoke that three more people collapsed on ground.
Only now did Ning Men realize, that all his long range fighters have been taken out one by one. One after another things became clear in his head. Jiang Chen has thorough information on them he was able to pinpoint his long range fighters and took them out , Jiang Chen already know their weaknesses and strengths and most importantly Jiang Chen is yet here and he has two spears on his back. They had lot of information on Jiang Chen but it was nowhere mentioned that Jiang Chen uses a spear.
Ning Men "Trap."